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To get a hair cut.
In college people say things like '' You need to get your hair cut'' and ''Your hair is too long''. It is only about 2 and a half inches! I had grown out my face hair too to see how much it can grow. It was little more than white hair around my cheeks, but on my chin, upper lip and side burns the hair was dark. My lecturer called it ''horrible''.
This is the exact reason i want to grow my hair, out of the social brainwashed mindset and into my own.
Who said social morals are right :P
Jeez - Where do you live? People telling you 2 1/2 inch hair is too long? - sounds like an army base or something. Right now my hair is nipple-length, I live in a small college town in rural New England, have also lived on Long Island (NY), and Miami, and only ever got flak for my hair in high school (only because it was private and religious - the people there were jerks).
And unless you're going to some private, religious college also - your professor telling you your facial hair looked bad is ridiculous.
Dave K
The awkward stage: The period between the time when your hair is longer than everyone thinks it ought to be and the time when it is so long that they realize that there is no changing your mind.
Bruce
Don't listen to them.When i started high school i had about shoulder lenght hair and i got those comments all the time(still getting them)I kept saying that i were going to cut my hair very soon.Then one day whan someone asked me if i would let my hair grow down to my ass(they said it in a mean way) i said: Yes i will!After that i got a lot of confidence.And now i dont care about those comment anymore.People will probably never stop telling you to cut your hair,but dont care about them .
The most important thing is to be yourself and not like everyone else wants you to be.
And i really look forward to your update.
Keep that attitude!!
a.
the interesting thing is that you'll get this when it starts getting just long enough to be different. If you were to wander into town with hair down to your mid-back no one would say anything, assuming you live in a civil place. there's a point when it gets so long everyone gives up. In the mean-time you have to have a few pithy replies ready...."Oh Fred, I'm so relieved--I was worried you'd like it." that sort of thing.
Please describe the social environment you live in. It seems very oppressive and disrespectiful of individuality. Is it a school, a monestary, a prison?
My son is always telling me I need a haircut. He's 19, and can get judgemental. Funny thing is that when he was 17, he got a green mohawk. When I told him I needed warning when he was going to do this something like this, he called me an "individuality nazi"! I just meant I need a heads-up. I'm old, and I can't take the shock. As long as he wasn't making permanent marks or punching holes, I wasn't going to give him a hard time. Since he's over 18, it's entirely his call now. (Right now, he has a blond "racing stripe" in his brown hair.)
Teenagers just prefer it if their parents are invisible - looks like he's out of luck!